I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.